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• i’m in trouble.
  

  BUT - i do appreciate you all weighing in and do definitely agree that if i did this and didn’t own up, i would be an awful person. he is not angry with me/he understands that i sent it without identifying myself so it didn’t become a “who said it”, but what information needed to be out there. My joke was that I was the deep throat on this watergate scandal.
  
  Now the bigger issue is whether a person can feel secure and safe voicing an opinion without fear of retaliation. The county cannot do anything to harm me - but they can harm him. And that shouldn’t be acceptable regardless of whether he wrote the letter or not. I don’t believe they should have tracked the IP. That’s my take on the situation. It wasn’t pertinent to the issue. It would be like tracking down anonymous comments in an employee suggestion box - if you want the truth, make the environment safe to speak the truth. I likely will go completely public on this but am debating what harm i can do to him professionally by making it an issue. Perhaps the best thing is to roll over, pray he can find another job and just get out of there, or I can stand up and say that no one had the right to do that. If i were any citizen in this locality, any business, any employee, I would be **** afraid to ever speak my mind for fear of someone searching out who dared question the king. I’m amazed at it all - so much for openess in government and organizations in general.
  - written 2 years, 2 months ago

• i’m in trouble.
  

  To expound on this - I have acknowledged it and in fact will go in to the HR office and meet with the director and likely the elected officials/the administrator/anyone I can. I am not a total scuzz on this - I didn’t use my email account as most of my screen names are fairly identifiable with me - this particular screen name that I used, as well as the friend’s computer, was a dead screen name on an account we mutually use - unfortunately, while the account was always charged to my credit card in recent years, he was the one who got the free aol for a year and so the master name always showed up as him being the owner. Since it was a screen name neither of us ever used, it seemed a natural choice to send the letter. I wanted to make the point that needed to be made without involving personalities - I surely didn’t know/didn’t want the county to play undercover cop and find out who wrote a letter suggesting they revisit a situation. Does it not make your skin crawl that those in significant power would take the time and effort to seek out who wrote something instead of simply dealing with the comments made? again, nothing illegal was asserted; no threats were made; it was simply an email that suggested the elected officials more carefully read things that were public record prior to confirming an appointment. It was not the job of a government staff paid for by tax dollars to look at what citizen had the audacity to question an eminent decision.
  - written 2 years, 2 months ago

• i’m in trouble.
  

  oh one more thing!! the email wasn’t written on a county computer nor using a county account. it was written at the person’s home on their personal computer using their personal aol account.
  - written 2 years, 2 months ago

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expectation of privacy in email, Retaliation, friends, computer, Freedom of speech, County, Newspaper, election, e-mail, Person, Ownership, Termination of employment